Bonanno's attempted LA takeover / John Roselli

[Angelo Santino]

CC, if I remember the book correctly when Brooklier & Sciortino went in, they tapped LT Dragna for acting boss. He told them he would only do it if Fratianno could come in and help him. He was so busy with his his clothing company, etc...of course he went for it. They may have been setting him up all along, LA & Chicago both, and he fell for it, hook line & sinker.
On his book "Vengeance is Mine", I didn't like it near as much as Last Mafioso. One thing I remember about it, when Jimmy was relocated to a different part of the country through witsec he eventually got to know his neighbors & told them who he was. That's funny.

Yes, I recall that. It's odd though because he doesn't detail any longterm relationship with Tom Dragna which would explain why he would propose Fratianno for the job. It's also not everyday someone transfers from one family to another to take an admin position, transfers are incredibly rare as it is, less than 5 examples post 1931.

[Pogo The Clown]

He trashed LA and just about every member throughout the 1960's. Everyone was a "dead-head" and largely incompetent in his eyes.

I love that term. He wasn't wrong about his descriptions of the LA family post Dragna.


Pogo

[Stroccos]

there was a theory that Anthony spilotoro was trying to form a new family in California , it was alleged that some bonnano members and chir petti in san diego where going to spear head this , this was after frank bompensario had been killed